Car boots, charity shops and amazing retro finds from your loft

[sith]

21 hours ago, phillv85 said:

Nice!! You’ve got about a grand in Pokémon games there alone.

I'm in Bangkok atm, hopefully the market doesn't crumble over the next few years.

[Ninja Doctor]

If your mam needs them shifting quickly I’m happy to go bin them all for you. 

[carlospie]

That's a crazy stash. Well done keeping it all, the amount of stuff I traded in over the years to get new stuff..... We were such fools 

[sith]

21 minutes ago, carlospie said:

That's a crazy stash. Well done keeping it all, the amount of stuff I traded in over the years to get new stuff..... We were such fools 

Apparently, she just found 40 or 50 Dreamcast games and a Sega Saturn with some games. Basically, I've been abroad quite a lot for the past 7 or 8 years and just let my collection sit there. The next time I'm home I'll try and do a proper inventory!

[carlospie]

17 minutes ago, sith said:

Apparently, she just found 40 or 50 Dreamcast games and a Sega Saturn with some games. Basically, I've been abroad quite a lot for the past 7 or 8 years and just let my collection sit there. The next time I'm home I'll try and do a proper inventory!

First dibs 🤓

[roobarb]

28 minutes ago, sith said:

Apparently, she just found 40 or 50 Dreamcast games

Ikaruga for me please (if you have it) 

[tenrou]

Tell your mum there's 5 grands worth of stuff in the photos and she'll stop calling it shit .

[sith]

31 minutes ago, roobarb said:

Ikaruga for me please (if you have it) 

Definitely don't have that as I gave it to my mate for Christmas years ago! Could have been the GC version, can't remember!

[Spartan]

As the weather changes, my usual winter hunting ground has unfortunately closed for good in South wales, so I have ventured across to foreign lands.

 

England, across the Severn.

 

So far, it's not proved particular fruitful game wise, few 360/PS3 gen titles mostly. Weirdly a different feel to the Welsh boots. Loads of new stuff for sale, market traders, etc.

 

 

Anyway, today has brought me a a very unexpected non retro purchase. A full-size 3D printer for £38, with several layers of dust. Seller said he hadn't used it for a year or two but had done some upgrades, was moving house and wanted it gone.

 

 

 

 

[Corranga]

I typed a long reply about my roof leaking and me now worrying about stuff in the attic, then my phone lost it as I added photos, so  let’s try again!

I’m now sorting out of cardboard boxes and into plastic boxes some old gaming stuff I’ve not seen for years, nothing gaming lost to the leaky roof, but my box of wedding memories is now gone

 

Anyway, I pulled 4 boxes of gaming stuff, I’ll spare you all from a photo of empty Wii remote / controller / composite cable boxes along with 6(!?) Wii remote condoms and move to more interesting stuff…

 

 

Game boy e-reader and some games, most packages are cut down the side of the plastic to get the cards out, a couple still sealed. The drawstring bag looks new, no idea where I got that.

 

 

I bought the double cymbals when I was in New York on holiday and had to get them in my case on the way home. 
 

 

Some pin badges I used to have on a SNES baseball cap as a geeky teen

 

 

My PS2 and it’s HDD / network adapter. No idea where the rest of my Linux kit has got to though.

 

 

A random selection of PS1 items, RRT4 with High Spec demo has to be one of the best things released on that console!

Martian Gothic and the Yaroze disks are still sealed. Both controllers are late PSOne ones with the curvy plugs on them, though oddly the multi tap has a regular square one despite the psone colouring.

 

 

and the matching consoles.  This was the one box I was most worried about being in the attic!!

[MikeBeaver]

Mmmm 😋 that Yarooze is damn tasty 🤤 

[New York Mikey]

My folks got around to clearing out their loft, and sent me a big box of my junk, so I’ve been happily going through my old stuff. Most of its fairly common- except this one (yes, I bought myself two copies back in 2003 so these are the green button versions - the bottom one is still sealed in it’s shipping box):

 

[Corranga]

10 hours ago, MikeBeaver said:

Mmmm 😋 that Yarooze is damn tasty 🤤 

 

It feels amazing too, though as you can tell from the photos, they aren't the easiest to keep clean as the matt finish means even dust wants to stick to it.

 

Unfortunately, it's missing the memory card, though having the cable is more important.  I used to use it combined with a copy of the boot disc and using the disc swap method (hence the smart cart / power replay in the other photo) 😅 I wish I'd got a box for it.  At uni, there was a pile of boxes on top of a cupboard, and we used to play "chair bowling" with them.  Basically stacking them up and then sliding ourselves the length of our lab towards the boxes to see who could knock the most down.  This was part of our chair Olympics, where we'd also do chair bunny hops.  We learnt at uni that wheels could break off of office chairs complete with most of the arm they are attached to, and thus, create trophies for us!  Pretty sure I picked up manuals for it on eBay years later too, but not come across those yet.

 

 

4 hours ago, New York Mikey said:

My folks got around to clearing out their loft, and sent me a big box of my junk, so I’ve been happily going through my old stuff. Most of its fairly common- except this one (yes, I bought myself two copies back in 2003 so these are the green button versions - the bottom one is still sealed in it’s shipping box):

 

 

This is top shelve madness, I love it!  

I loved playing gams with silly, dedicated peripherals, whether it was dance games, rhythm action, DJ / band hero, Samba etc. but never stretched to Steel Battalion.

Does make me think that combining with VR could be amazing though

 

[Corranga]

Back again, reboxing more stuff from my attic… this time, a box of Dreamcast peripherals and some nice Nintendo collectibles.

 

 

 

 

but I’m not done!  I found some other funny bits too….

I found this odd Mario bear thing I was once given as a gift

 

2 recipes, for GameCube consoles, 1 black, 1 purple, each cost me £4.99!

 

 

And finally, possibly the dumbest thing that younger me thought might be a good idea to stick in the attic, and probably a walking disease waiting to happen.  Anyone fancy a stick of Nintendo rock from, I think 2004?

 

 

[T Pot]

Some of the stuff on this page is amazing.

[MikeBeaver]

Not on the level of the attic finds above, but I did find pokemon Ultra Sun on 3DS today in a charity shop.. for £1.50!!

[disperse and recoagulate]

On 20/11/2022 at 20:14, Corranga said:

Both controllers are late PSOne ones with the curvy plugs on them, though oddly the multi tap has a regular square one despite the psone colouring.

I don’t suppose you wanna sell the multitap and controllers? I’m after some:

 

 

[Corranga]

23 hours ago, disperse and recoagulate said:

I don’t suppose you wanna sell the multitap and controllers? I’m after some

Not looking to sell at the moment, sorry. For now I’m looking to save this stuff at least until my 8 year old daughter is old enough to know if she’s into games and retro games at that. As she ages, my mind may change, but for now, I’m hoping it’s all something we can bond in as she grows

[Ninja Doctor]

Well mine loves Super Metroid and Grandia 2 so there is hope!

[Spartan]

Discovered a recycling centre near me, I did find some good recent bits of kit a couple of days ago so went down again on a whim to discover a cabinet of boxed megadrive titles. Nothing too exciting bar a lovely condition copy of Golden axe 2 for £25. That's come home with me. Even had the Sega seal sticker and its hanging tab attached.

[Alexlotl]

Cor, that’s in superb nick. Probably nicer to look at than play!

[Spartan]

1 hour ago, Alexlotl said:

Cor, that’s in superb nick. Probably nicer to look at than play!

 

Indeed, its half the reason I picked it up despite owning an Everdrive. I've a softspot for the original black label Megadrive carts, the artwork was amazing. I managed to find Alien Storm earlier this year at a boot sale cheap.

[Dr Nookie]

Well I don’t think I’ve ever posted in this thread, but whilst looking for some missing records I’ve found my old DC stuff.  There’s a console, keyboard and fishing thingy up here too. 

Not a clue if they’re worth anything except the obvious one on top 😃.. 

 

 

 

Edit - it appears some are rather pricey but do they actually sell for those prices?

 

One of my fav games was Record of Lodos war which I only ever borrowed off someone sadly. I think I had Powerstone at some stage too.
What I do know is I swapped House of the Dead 2 with the guns with someone on here at Liverpool St. station about 20 years ago.  I think that was for GC Pikmin and Viewtiful Joe or something. 
I’ll be uncovering that lot too while I work out what to do with it all. 

 

[Spartan]

Nah its all tat, send it my way, ill dispose of it

 

"Screams in despair at how I traded a lot of the above and more for a launch day xbox and Halo"

[roobarb]

2 hours ago, Dr Nookie said:

Well I don’t think I’ve ever posted in this thread, but whilst looking for some missing records I’ve found my old DC stuff.  There’s a console, keyboard and fishing thingy up here too. 

Not a clue if they’re worth anything except the obvious one on top 😃.. 

 

 

 

Edit - it appears some are rather pricey but do they actually sell for those prices?

 

One of my fav games was Record of Lodos war which I only ever borrowed off someone sadly. I think I had Powerstone at some stage too.
What I do know is I swapped House of the Dead 2 with the guns with someone on here at Liverpool St. station about 20 years ago.  I think that was for GC Pikmin and Viewtiful Joe or something. 
I’ll be uncovering that lot too while I work out what to do with it all. 

 

Nice selection!

Do let me know if you'd ever like to part with Ikaruga 

[Bangaio]

That looks like my collection I sold for peanuts around 2005. Other than I also had shenmue 1 and 2 and a few others. 😩

[Dr Nookie]

11 minutes ago, Bangaio said:

That looks like my collection I sold for peanuts around 2005. Other than I also had shenmue 1 and 2 and a few others. 😩

Username literally checks out…

[Dr Nookie]

17 hours ago, roobarb said:

Nice selection!

Do let me know if you'd ever like to part with Ikaruga 

I shall bear it in mind. 
GC stuff located - all US. Not a very comprehensive selection- I think most of the time was spent playing RE4. 

[Colonel Panic]

Casual GC component cable flex! I like it!

[carlospie]

I'm pretty sure I sold a wavebird alone for about £80 last year